Fight tautness whenever it occurs; strive for relaxed muscles throughout.
BOBBY JONESYou are not playing a human adversary; you a playing a game. You are playing old man par.
More Bobby Jones Quotes
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I have never felt so lonely as on a golf course in the midst of a championship with thousands of people around, especially when things began to go wrong and the crowds started wandering away.
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Nicklaus plays a kind of golf with which I am not familiar.
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It is nothing new or original to say that golf is played one stroke at a time. But it took me many years to realize it.
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Golf is the closest game to the game we call life. You get bad breaks from good shots; you get good breaks from bad shots – but you have to play the ball where it lies.
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Well, I’m glad we don’t have to play in the shade.
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The toughest opponent of all is Old Man Par. He’s a patient soul who never shoots a birdie and never incurs a bogey. And if you would travel the long road with him, you must be patient, too.
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A leading difficulty with the average player is that he totally misunderstands what is meant by concentration. He may think he is concentrating hard when he is merely worrying.
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I never learned anything from a match that I won.
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Doesn’t it show us all that we are silly little boys or fatuous asses to think that we can play golf without making a lot of bad shots?
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The ‘enemy’ in golf is tension.
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If I had ever been set down in any one place and told I was to play there, and nowhere else, for the rest of my life, I should have chosen the Old Course at St. Andrews.
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You might as well praise a man for not robbing a bank as to praise him for playing by the rules.
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The difference between a sand trap and water hazard is the difference between a car crash and an airplane crash. You have a chance of recovering from a car crash.
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You are not playing a human adversary; you a playing a game. You are playing old man par.
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Some people think they are concentrating when they’re merely worrying.
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